About Special Solutions for Special Needs

Our Collaborative Approach

Special Solutions will do whatever it takes to help you.  We will find a way to renew your optimism.

An initial consultation with parents results in a personal plan creating the best possible educational solutions for your child.  Our collaborative approach can also make connections with specialists.  We work with a trusted and knowledgeable group of therapists, tutors, speech and language pathologists, psychologists and neurologists.  Special Solutions works with you to coordinate the appropriate resources  offering assessment, ongoing support and guidance.

Our support systems, strategies and advocacy assist you in charting a path toward success.

With or without a diagnosis, our focus is always on your child’s potential and your peace of mind.  We offer a wide range of services that enable us to solve problems related to:

• Academic Progress
• Placement / Programming
• Organization
• Attention
• Motivation
• Behavior
• Relationships
• Communication

Shelley B. Smith M.Ed -Counseling

Shelley has over three decades of experience working with the parents of children with special needs. As a teacher for the St. Louis County Special School District, she has worked with students of all ages in public, private and parochial schools. She spent the last half of her teaching career at Ladue Horton Watkins High School as a Resource Teacher.

Shelley has enthusiastically provided support and guidance to countless parents with considerable anxiety regarding their child’s happiness and success. When you work with Shelley, expect rapid, candid communication mixed with a dash of humor to help relieve the turbulence involved in raising and educating a child with special needs.

To learn more about Shelley, visit her on Facebook and become a friend.

“I concur [with the parents] Shelley Smith is a very remarkable woman.”

-Former Ladue School District Superintendent